How does my garden grow: sowing

Time for another How does my gar­den grown update.  I’ve been slog­ging away try­ing to get up the over­grown gar­den tamed. Squidge and I are also sow­ing seeds for our veg­gie gar­den.  We’re very excited about grow­ing our own veg­eta­bles espe­cially Squidge.  Firstly I’ve been work­ing out in the gar­den.  The weeds are tak­ing over my life and I’m try­ing to get a han­dle on it!   It hasn’t been easy let me tell you!  My neme­sis is the bracken ferns that have over­taken the gar­den.  I had thought the black­berry bram­bles were dif­fi­cult but at least with them I can cut them back and pull up the roots.  The bracken ferns are hard to pull up. Some of the rhi­zomes are as big as bas­ket­balls, hell I think they’re big­ger than bas­ket­balls.  They’re HUGE!  I have to remind myself that this is all about the long game, this project is going to take years.  It’s dif­fi­cult to know that what you’re pulling up is enough, I won’t know until I’ve gone through a cou­ple of grow­ing sea­sons.  Still I’m doing what I can and hope­fully I’ll see some pay­off in the end.

As far as our veg­gies go yes­ter­day was time to sow some seeds.  To say Squidge was excited well that would just be silly she was SOOOO FREAKING EXCITED!!!  We put seeds on the soil, cov­ered them with more soil and labeled each row.  The label­ing part was her favorite.  It was my favorite too! Her writ­ing is really com­ing along and she tried sound­ing out the words and would ask me if it was cor­rect before writ­ing.  I’d say she was right on the money about 1/2 the time, not bad.

To tell you the truth I’m pretty geeked out over grow­ing our own food. Wal laughs at me when he walks by the com­puter and sees me drool­ing over com­post­ing bins, green­houses and cold stores. He won’t be laugh­ing when he’s chomp­ing on some pur­ple car­rots and eat­ing fresh peas like popcorn.